Speaker
CHO Chang-Beom
Affliation
WFUNA
Title
Vice President
Session

Biography

Ambassador Chang-Beom Cho is Vice President of the World Federation of the United Nations Associations (WFUNA). He currently teaches International Relations and UN as a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies of Kyunghee University. He also serve as a member of the National Unification Advisory Council as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. He was Deputy Foreign Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations, Korean Foreign Ministry. As a career diplomat he served as Ambassador to Australia, Czech Republic and Republic of Austria. Ambassador Cho also worked extensively in multilateral negotiations as Permanent Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Vienna, Governor to the IAEA, and Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, New York. He was Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University. Ambassador Cho graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) and studied International Law and Diplomacy at the Graduate Schools of SNU and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.


조창범대사는 유엔협회 세계연맹 (WFUNA) 부회장을 맡고 있다. 그는 경희대학교 평화복지 대학원 객원 교수, 민주평화통일 자문회의 위원, 국가인권위원회 자문위원 등으로도 활동하고 있다. 조대사는 직업외교관으로 36년간 근무하면서 외교부 정책실장, 구주국장, 주호주 대사, 주오스트리아 및 주비엔나 국제기구대사, 주체코 대사, 주유엔 차석대사 등을 역임하였다. 또한 서울 대학교 국제대학원 초빙교수로 활동하였다. 그는 서울대학교 법과대학을 졸업하고 서울대 대학원 및 미국 죠지타운 대학교 대학원에서 수학하였다.